An empirical study on evaluating training program: A case study of university employee


Hamid Reza Rezazadeh Bahadoran, Aliakbar Khosravi Babadadi and Sara Tountab Haghighi


In this paper, we present an empirical study on measuring the effects of training programs on efficiency of university employee. The proposed model of this paper uses Kirkpatrick four level models based on some questionnaire. The questions are divided into four different groups of reflection, leaning, behavior and efficiency and the feedback are collected using Likert scales. We perform some statistical tests to analyze the results and conclude that staff training has relatively positive impact on all four items. In addition, the effects of different personal characteristics such as age, gender and marriage conditions are investigated on all four levels of Kirkpatrick's model. The results indicate that the Kirkpatrick could be implemented for measuring the effects of training programs, efficiently.


DOI: j.msl.2011.04.005

Keywords: Training program ,Efficiency ,Learning studies ,Kirkpatrick model

How to cite this paper:

Bahadoran, H., Babadadi, A & Haghighi, S. (2011). An empirical study on evaluating training program: A case study of university employee.Management Science Letters, 1(3), 247-252.


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